As the year, 2017, begins its journey, many recent events provide the sum total of a series of political, social and economic shifts of a magnitude probably last witnessed soon after the end of World War II. The last seventy years, especially the ...... | Read..

Speaking of the happy new year, I wonder if any year ever had less chance of being happy. It's as though the whole race were indulging in a kind of species introversion - as though we looked inward on our neuroses. And the thing we see isn't very pretty... So we go into this... year, knowing that our species has learned nothing, can, as a race, learn nothing - that the experience of ten thousand years has made no impression on the instincts of the million years that preceded. - JOHN STEINBECK